dimreepr
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1 hour ago, FreeWill said:
There are a lot of reasons why you are and what you are.
There's a lot of reasons why you are you, but there's no reason to be you.
1 hour ago, FreeWill said:but I am sure it was not true in your twenties and you had a lot of recognized reasons for your existence. I.e the studies and works you made, how you planned and developed your life...
All of that is goal driven, which is generally set by others; work towards this, in order to achieve this and be this; meanwhile you forget to enjoy this.
1 hour ago, Wulphstein said:The purpose of life is to exploit nuances in the laws of physics
Good joke...
15 hours ago, Airbrush said:Improvement, in itself, is enough success and happiness.
What is success (and happiness)?
What if I'm happier than yesterday, but worse? e.g. I was starving yesterday and stole a meat pie.
(!!!Cliche warning!!!)
At the end of the day, if you can look yourself in the mirror you've succeeded in life and if your content with what you see, you're allowed to be happy...
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12 minutes ago, Strange said:To do ...
Doo be doo be doo ...
Whatever floats your boat.
6 hours ago, Airbrush said:This is a serious question. I'd like to know how you would answer this in a few words.
My answer to the question is the purpose of life is to get better, in a few words. "To get better" is evolution, adaption, and survival. If you get sick, your purpose is to get better. If you do well in anything, the purpose is to get better.
Even if you find a purpose, does it automatically mean success or happiness, what happens if you do get better? Can you relax with the knowledge of a job well done? What after you become the best, wouldn't you just worry that you may not be tomorrow?
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14 hours ago, Paul Singh Jr said:
It’s really bad ppl are not taken in consideration the soil toxicity which will ruffle take about 10yrs to lose 25% of the globes fertile farm land .we need to start shooting rubbish into space and turn all public transports electric.and regardless of that there’s to much ppl on the planet in 5 yrs it’s gonna be 20billion . At a time when we need more resources we’re destroying them
You're right we need action, not foolish words with no basis in reality; that just helps the Donald's of this world.
We don't need to lie, or make stuff up, the shit is on the doorstep and a golf club won't help. IOW we need sensible/workable idea's that we can all get behind.
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1 hour ago, Polinski said:
There is zero possibility of hundreds of thousands of dna lines happening in the mud randomely to form the simplest protozoan
The evidence would suggest it only happened once, or at least it was whittled down to one, much like the evolution of the internal combustion engine.
1 hour ago, Polinski said:Why do people believe in mathematical impossibility
In context, it's because they read a book about evolution (and we are here); you should try it.
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3 minutes ago, Curious layman said:
I thought if you fired off a probe towards the sun it wouldn't just into to it, it wouldn't get anywhere near it, but if you fired a probe into a black hole obviously it would go straight into it, why the difference?
There is no difference.
If you can't run fast enough...
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13 minutes ago, et pet said:We may be able to assist you if we know the principle that is being applied.
We might, but probably not you or I...
8 minutes ago, Curious layman said:why doesn't the sun just pull you straight in,
Because we're trying to escape, but we can't run fast enough.
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9 minutes ago, Curious layman said:
Ok bad word, not land but use the sun as a nuclear waste dump, overcoming the gravity ( I think) would make it so difficult it would be pointless, but then why doesn't the same principle apply to a black hole, I don't actually want to throw waste into a black hole that was just an example. I thought that this meant that a rotating black hole would be like trying to dump nuclear waste into the sun but a non rotating black hole would just suck you straight in.
OK you need to learn what escape velocity actually means.
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17 hours ago, Michael McMahon said:
Solipsism would lead to loneliness and isolation.
That depends on the conclusion the solipsist reaches:
Since I don't know, then fuck it, I'll play.
Since I don't know, then fuck you/it, give me my ball.
17 hours ago, Michael McMahon said:I don't think it's selfish.
Selfish is a different question.
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On 5/3/2019 at 5:45 AM, zapatos said:
The strange feeling I get is generated by the number of first time posters in this thread who have joined simply to add legitimacy to the other first time posters. It's amazing that this many people have a strange self-induced feeling that drew them to this site for some reason.
And by way of proof
3 hours ago, Cullen J said:Wow i know this,been wondering what it is..i had to sign up to reply.been looking for explanation to this like forever! So the weird thing or rather strange is that i knew about this feeling in a dream about 10 years ago (am 25) and i was evading a creature so my point of escape was through a wall a big wall so i wasnt left with any option all i had to do was crash into the wall and as i was doing that i naturally (in the dream state) felt the tingling feeling sort of came from inside my rib cage and felt abit weird but managed to somehow bypass the wall without crashing it into pieces...when i walk up i was like 'huh!' How was that possible...but dint mind much on that so after a couple days i had another dream and that time i think i was having a lucid dream because i could recall bypassing a wall from the other dream while in this dream (dont know how this is possible) then i tried to go through a wall and very VERY surprisingly i generated the feeling as i was walking through the wall and succeeded.i felt so amazed
.but the shocking thing is that when i tried to walk through the wall again without making the feeling i could not pass it!!.so guys when i walk up i dint know how i did it but i was able to generate the feeling while awake i was so excited and thought i cud pass through the wall while i generated the feeling but to my disappointment i it failed.i actually thought i cud pass the wall because that feeling was so strange..(dummy me 
)...so from that day i was able to do it upto now and once tried to explain to someone and all cud get was a sloppy stare to my face.ooh and i was forgetting,upto to this day i am able to do it almost in any lucid dream that i get and i recall one time generating the feel with an intention to go invisible to people in the dream and it worked!.....and another thing i get this feeling when i get sleep paralysis,it feels negative than when i do it intentionally i dont know why.this feeling is realy hard to explain to someone but i just think the best way is to tell someone to fake being afraid assuming u have just seen something straight from your worst nightmare....i think its a natural way the brain react to things cause i learnt it in a DREAM and i never knew this before until i dreamt and naturally generated the feeling without thinking to pass that wall (magically)...its amazing how God made us isn't it?
Maybe there's a PhD opportunity zap.
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3 minutes ago, Michael McMahon said:
It's not the suicide victim's fault if other individuals die of suicide afterwards. Suicide contagion may be more a reflection of social problems like poverty and lgbt stigma. I haven't watched 13 Reasons Why.
All I know is, we used to be happy, at least some of us...
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1 hour ago, Michael McMahon said:
This question is a common tactic used by parents. But it does happen to show the absurdity that suicide victims are directly responsible for other suicides. Death would be the end of your life. You don't get to bask in other people's grief afterwards. So I'm not sure what this confusion is about suicide contagion. If there is an instance of multiple suicides in an area, then focus on any underlying societal issues and improve mental health services.
Some religions seem to have done that.
1 hour ago, Michael McMahon said:"So, if the whole world/ your whole school/ all your friends were going to jump off a bridge, would you jump, too?"
And some religions seem to have done that.
Suicide prevention is a little like forcing a horse to drink; with human level horse power...
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21 minutes ago, seriously disabled said:
My problems are much more serious than just being depressed.
For starters I live in poverty, my health is very bad and am about to become homeless, living on the streets or just rot in jail for many years.
I am also heartbroken because of the many rejections I get from women and also I will never be able to get permission from the auhorities to drive a car for the rest of my life.
Well at least you're not a refugee...
It's been 10 years since you signed up here, at least you're still on-line; there's a happy thought for you.
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12 minutes ago, iNow said:
Hmm... it seems I’ve “sculpted” far too serious a response in this less than serious sub forum.
Not serious!!!
They even have their own forum...
What is the Purpose of Life ?
in General Philosophy
You're missing the point. We're not born with a purpose or a set of goals to be achieved.
You're entitled to set whatever goals you want, but there's no universal imperative to do so.
There is no "purpose/reason" for life, only the arbitrary set of goals you give yourself IOW any meaning/reason/purpose to life is completely subjective; there's nothing objective to measure.